COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



base of the lower one, were bright scarlet orange ; the irides 

 light brown ; the head, the neck behind, the back, scapulars, 

 wing-coverts and tertials, nearly uniform clove-brown ; pri- 

 maries nearly black ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail very much 

 forked, the feathers white at the base, the other part dark 

 brownish black ; the outer feather on each side as long again 

 as those in the middle ; the chin white ; the throat pale buff, 

 with a crescentic line of black ascending to each eye ; breast 

 brownish buff; belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 axillary plume and under wing-coverts bay ; the legs reddish 

 purple brown. 



In the young bird the clove-brown feathers of the back, 

 and the wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertials, have pale red- 

 dish brown margins ; the tail-feathers shorter, and much less 

 forked ; throat pale brown, the crescentic collar indicated by 

 dark brown spots ; breast varied with two shades of brown ; 

 belly, and under surface of the body, and tail-feathers, grey- 

 ish white. 



Females are said to resemble the males. The whole length 

 of an adult bird near ten inches. From the carpal joint to 

 the end of the first quill-feather, seven inches. 



